Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Quaker Hoover takes issue with tradition is the designation of the rider on the red horse as Pestilence ("and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...
...defense purposes: 1) the telescope's enormous dish antenna, over 400 ft. in diameter, can act as a beam transmitter and bounce powerful radio signals off the moon. When they return after 2.6 sec., they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able to pick up radio evidence reflected off the moon that somebody on earth has exploded a nuclear device...
...angel on one side? Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know why, but he has it. Why is he scratching his leg? Because there are so many mosquitoes on earth. What is the faun doing? He is watching the angel. He has never seen an angel either...
...Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (1909), nicknamed "the Battleship," an earth-hugging, brick masonry private house with free-running cantilevers, on Chicago's Woodlawn Avenue. Saved earlier this year from destruction, it will be handed over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation...
...Navy launched yesterday morning a 21 1/2-pound satellite equipped to study weather patterns and cloud cover on the earth. Strong signals were received from the satellite at several tracking stations, but there is doubt in the mind of Vanguard chief scientist John P. Hagan that the satellite is still orbiting...